How Tallahassee Community College repurposed its educational technology to boost student success
By Bret Ingerman
02/06/2019 on e-Campus News
…Choosing flexible, adaptable solutions such as Workday and TDX has allowed us to do more with less—delivering exceptional service to students, faculty, and staff despite our budget constraints. Read full article here.
A Young Entrepreneur Has Bold Take On Fixing Student Engagement
By Derek Newton
12/18/2018 on Forbes
…By building familiar, highly-functioning communication and connectivity tools with the academics, ambi is hitting on the numerous academic and programmatic studies that have linked positive student engagement, the development of learning communities and peer-to-peer connections with retention and, eventually, graduation…Read full article here.
Do students understand academic integrity?
By: Gina Londino-Smolar
01/22/2019 on SmartBrief
…Many students I teach–from freshman to graduate students–think that academic misconduct only includes plagiarism or cheating. They don’t realize that it also includes falsification, fabrication, interference and violating course rules…Read full article here.
5 major online-learning challenges—and how to solve them, pt. 2
By Dennis Pierce
01/23/2019 on eCampus News
…With the aid of CirQlive, instructors can schedule a video conferencing session directly from their course page in Canvas. Students can access session from their course page as well, without needing a separate invitation. And once the meeting is over, students have access to the recording via a secure link within the LMS…Read full article here. But don’t overlook part 1!
Life Lessons on MLK Day 2019 with Michele Pitman, CEO of IntelliVOL
01/21/2019 on Blog Talk Radio: Life Lessons Network
…Keeping track of all of the good works of those students in order to know what is happening in our area and the overall impact is not easy…Read full article here.
Community service is great. So why is it such a pain?
By Michele Pitman
01/21/2019 on Crain’s New York Business
…We can reward initiative without burdening schools or service providers. Mobile, cloud technologies allow students to find, schedule, confirm and reflect on service experiences with their smartphones. Schools and community groups can verify hours in one touch…Read full article here.